It has been more than half a month since Du Zhaocai was taken into custody, and the Li Tie case seems to be nearing its end, but the drums of the new Chinese Super League (CSL) season are beating, and the ripples of Li Tie's case are resurfacing. According to numerous journalists' revelations, former national team goalkeeper Gu Chao has been arrested by the police for his alleged involvement in gambling on soccer matches, while former Suning club VIP Yin Chenglong has also been taken away.
Gu Chao's arrest stems from his alleged match-fixing in the 2019 Chinese Super League clash between Jiangsu Suning's 0-1 defeat to Shanghai Shenhua. It is worth noting that this case is not directly related to the gambling cases of Jin Jingdao and Qin Sheng, as it was previously reported that Jin Jingdao and others were suspected of gambling. The underlying reason is that the golden dollar soccer era has come to an end, but the players' income has not been reduced in tandem, and they are still earning a lot of money in 2019.
Some journalists even revealed that the clues to the arrests of Gu Chao and Yin Chenglong originated from Shenhua's former chairman Wu Xiaohui. Looking back, Jiangsu Suning lost a dubious match to Shanghai Shenhua, who were on a nine-game winning streak at the time, despite having top foreign aid and the advantage of home field. Gu Chao, who was Suning's goalkeeper, put in a worrying performance against a shot from Shenhua's foreigner Moreno.
It is worth mentioning that after the match, both the media and Jiangsu fans were skeptical about the result of the match and considered it a fake. However, it will take time to reveal whether the game was a fake or not. If the match is indeed a fake, Shanghai Shenhua will face harsher punishments, such as before when it was stripped of its last A-League trophy and deducted points for buying the referee to play a fake match.
The wind of corruption in soccer is still spreading, the top management of the Football Association (FA) is scarce, and the Shanghai men's basketball team and Jiangsu men's basketball team have been punished by the Basketball Association (BA) for tacitly agreeing to play. Against this backdrop, the FA is bound to impose heavy penalties on teams suspected of match-fixing. Gu Chao is suspected of cheating in the match, and we still need to wait for the official notification to see if the battle between Suning and Shenhua was a match-fixing. After all, Shanghai Shenhua, as a giant in the Chinese Super League, is unlikely to repeat the same mistake.
With the depth of Li Tie's case, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) held a special meeting on anti-corruption and integrity. Reporter Zhao Yu revealed that the meeting was chaired by Yan Zhanhe, secretary of the Discipline Committee, and Yuan Yongqing, secretary of the Discipline Committee of the newly established Anti-Gambling Group, has also met with members of the Football Association. It can be seen that the Football Association will strengthen the implementation of discipline. What do you think about this? Welcome to leave a message in the comments section, exchange!
